This is typical of bear market recovery behavior, says David Katz, chief investment officer at Matrix Asset Advisors.

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Until pay for CEOs is tied to judicious fiscal behavior instead of boosting earnings per share at any cost, chief executives will continue to swing for the fences.

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While the moves are legal and disclosed in regulatory filings, "there are certainly some fairly serious red flags in terms of behavior that are raised there, " said Paul Hodgson, chief research analyst for GMI Ratings, a corporate-governance and risk-management research firm.

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Consumers have grown tired of Spears' consistently bad behavior, says In Touch Weekly Editor In Chief Richard Spencer.

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In last week's edition of the New Republic, Editor-in-Chief Martin Peretz wrote of his despair over this now-well-established pattern of behavior.

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"Understanding the fine-grained social behavior of a billion people is something no one has ever done before, " says research chief Prabhakar Raghavan.

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"By widening the services, they get richer behavior out of you, and more precise clusters of consumers, " says William Nowacki, chief executive of Hyperparallel.

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But rather than stay mum about the increasingly worrisome behavior of its highest paid star as the company has done in the past, CBS Entertainment Chief Nina Tassler used her time before the Television Critics Association Friday to address her concern.

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